Originally posted by LePaul
Wholly sheeet! *Small Accident* (1.5 acres of blackened field...LOL)
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/sflores1/MyRockets.html
Ya gotta tell me how to make some! My Estes and AeroTech's just do not do it for me!
Now that the bugs are ironed out... those rockets are cheap, easy to make, reliable, accurate, and fun. The ones I made were only powered by D engines. When we finished our Navy sonar school, I had to fly to my next duty station, so my friend kept my launcher and carried on development. He went up to F and G engines. The power of those engines required metal hinges for the folding fins compared to the merely taped on ones of the D-engine versions.
As for the "accident", two of our group of 5 were caught and detained by police. But after extensive questioning, they were cleared of arson charges and didn't even have to pay a fine. They didn't show the police any of the fancy shoulder launcher/weapons style stuff, just the standard launch pad and a couple of toy rockets. I was with the group that went for help and escaped capture, so I didn't even get to see the final fire or the fire trucks. That was the last of the cardboard rocket experiments. The move to all aluminum construction solved the structural failure problem that led to the rocket causing a fire.